ontogeny vs inflorescence

inflorescence vs ontogeny

ontogeny and inflorescence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ontogeny	Yes	No	No	No
inflorescence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, inflorescence is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, inflorescence is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ontogeny:

ontogeny: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
inflorescence: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Other hyponyms of ontogeny include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	inflorescence (noun)
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level	the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
	the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Difference between ontogeny and inflorescence

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